September, 2013
The World As It Is and the World As It Should Be: Interview with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
Alliance for Peacebuilding president and chief executive officer Melanie Greenberg interviewed Mr. Eliasson in June 2013 at the UN headquarters in New York about his experiences with conflict prevention over […]
Playing Fair: Using Sports to Avoid Conflict in Nigeria
In May 2004, I survived a violent riot in Kano, a city in northern Nigeria. Young men swarmed through the streets of my neighborhood, burning and destroying randomly in retaliation […]
Book Review: Give Peace a Chance
Book by David Hamburg and Eric Hamburg It thus offers an elaborate response to the question of what we can do to reduce the chances for violence and increase the […]
Reminders of the Promise: Civil Society and the Responsibility to Protect
In 2005 governments worldwide made a historic commitment to prevent and halt genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing by unanimously agreeing to the responsibility to protect (R2P). […]
A Living Reality? The Responsibility to Protect and the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
At the 2005 World Summit, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the concept of responsibility to protect (R2P). World leaders agreed that they each had to protect their own populations […]
Bringing Up the Child: Local Conflict Prevention Mechanisms in Kenya
The Elder Community Growing up in Kenya’s beautiful rural areas, I was fascinated by the power of the elders, a group of old wise men sitting under a tree delivering […]
Letting the Other In: Conflict Prevention in Myanmar
Kyoko Okumoto, a well-respected Japanese peacebuilder, once said to me, “I firmly believe that to be an effective peacebuilder you need to be able to trust.” By trust she did […]
Film Review: A Whisper to a Roar
In a globalized world, when leaders in Asia make a declaration, it is almost immediately heard in the Americas. Likewise, social activism and ideas can spread rapidly across borders, as […]
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
In a new RAND Corporation study of nation-building—Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building—we analyze the impediments that local conditions pose to interventions aimed at stabilizing conflict-affected areas. Previous […]
The Business of Preventing Armed Conflict
Preventing armed conflict might seem like a task only state agencies and civil society organizations are interested in, but businesses in conflict-prone areas are equally, if not more, interested in […]
